First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The aim of this project is to bring together fifteen extensively revised, peer-reviewed articles by international scholars covering a diverse range of fields--from cinema to economics to history to the social sciences--addressing issues in contemporary Japan. These fifteen are all contributors to the first ten years of the EJCJS--the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. The principal strengths of this volume are its diversity of approaches and its fundamentally interdisciplinary nature: it allows researchers in different fields to contribute to an overall understanding of...